Bulk/high volume email

[walter1917]

Hi all,

 

I have a dedicated server and can setup any mail server (sendmail, postfix, etc...), I am trying to figure out how to set up for mass-mailing for subscription newsletter?

 

How should you batch emails? Is there any simple to use schedulers/batchers available?

 

-walter

[Mardoxx]

foreach loop around mail() on $row['email']?

 

IDK, there are ways of setting up mailing lists but I don't know how/what they do. I'd be interested to know

[mikesta707]

I would do it by iterating through an array of email's, and emailing each one, one by one. but i've never done a mass email system before so i don't know if this is the best way

 

Oh mardoxx beat me to it 

[MatthewJ]

That is a good concept... often though Hosts or ISP's will only allow "x" number of emails per hour from a specific account to be sent, so you may want to be aware of that. In the past I have used a CRON job to run a script that would send 150 emails per hour which would stay under my host's limit of 200 per hour.

[jonsjava]

I actually wrote a script to do exactly the kind of thing you are wanting to do.

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